3,000 churches in California have banded together to announce that they will hold in-person services on May 31, regardless of what Governor Gavin Newsom says. Also in California, the Public Health Director of Stanislaus County announced that the county would no longer enforce the governor’s lockdown order. Meanwhile, the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Governor Tony Ever’s stay-at-home order. However, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said that lockdown protesters are racist and misogynistic.
In other news, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has decided to serve on the climate change panel for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
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Thanks to Diana West, GH, Insubria, JD, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.
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Before thinking that the government is just looking out for you, do take the time to learn from the past because that is the best way to predict the future….
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3,000 CA Churches Now Vowing to Reopen May 31 Regardless of Lockdown Orders
A network of around 3,000 churches in California are vowing to reopen in-person services on May 31, despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lockdown orders and insistence that churches are “nonessential.”
Church United, a group representing 2.5 million church members across California, announced its plans to restart public worship services ahead of phase three of the governor’s reopening initiative.
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After Mounting Criticism, NBC’s Chuck Todd Apologizes for Airing Edited Clip
After facing a firestorm of criticism for the decision to air an edited clip of U.S. Attorney General William Barr, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd has apologized.
On Sunday’s program, Todd ran a clip of Barr’s interview with CBS reporter Catherine Herridge that made it appear as though the country’s top legal officer was prioritizing politics over the rule of law in the decision to drop charges against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
The full transcript, which was not aired or discussed, reveals that Barr went on to address the rule of law in the next sentence. Todd acknowledged Barr’s complete answer would have provided the exact context the host had faulted him for not providing.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Serve on Biden Campaign Climate Change Panel
After acknowledging last month that she has never spoken to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is joining his campaign.
The 30-year-old, outspoken Bernie Sanders supporter will reportedly serve as co-chair on a climate change advisory panel for Biden, helping him shape his policy proposals in a manner that appeals to left-wing voters.
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Arizona Governor Says Major League Sports Can Return to State on May 16
Gov. Doug Ducey announced Tuesday that major leagues sports can return to Arizona on Saturday, provided they abide by the CDC guidelines to protect public health.
Ducey said he already had discussions with leaders of some of the leagues.
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Bill Gates’ and Rockefeller Foundation’s Plan to Track Americans
Bill Gates — who illegally invests in the same industries he gives charitable donations to, and who promotes a global public health agenda that benefits the companies he’s invested in — has gone on record saying life will not go back to normal until we have the ability to vaccinate the entire global population against COVID-19.
To that end, he is pushing for disease surveillance and a vaccine tracking system that might involve embedding vaccination records on our bodies. One example of how this might be done is using an invisible ink quantum dot tattoo, described in a December 18, 2019, Science Translational Medicine paper.
According to statements made by Gates, societal and financial normalcy may never return to those who refuse vaccination, as the digital vaccination certificate Gates is pushing for might ultimately be required to go about your day-to-day life and business. Without this “digital immunity proof,” you may not even be allowed to travel locally or visit certain public buildings.
Gates has a history of “predicting” global pandemics with vast numbers of deaths, and with his call for a tracking system to keep tabs on infected/noninfected and vaccinated/unvaccinated individuals, he’s ensuring an unimaginably profitable future for the vaccine makers he supports and makes money from via his Foundation investments.
Along with Gates, The Rockefeller Foundation is also coordinating efforts in the direction of social control through the implementation of draconian COVID-19 tracking and tracing measures that are clearly meant to become permanent.
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by Diana West
I can’t think of a better word than “blithering” to describe Conrad Black’s writings about FDR, especially in conservative publications.
His writings about American Betrayal and Yours Truly, however, are something else again but I haven’t found the apt word to encapsulate the crude, pompous and vicious streak in him that my work has magically inspired.
To wit:
Diana West, a right-wing loopy who has occasionally aroused cautious hopefulness that she has been house-trained, has published a novel presented as a non-fiction work, entitled “American Betrayal.” … The West farrago of lies has been thoroughly debunked, especially by Ron Radosh in his FrontPageMag piece titled “McCarthy on Steroids.”
Well, we all know what happened to him.
Here’s a bit more from this first of four Black attacks, just to convey the erupting toxicity and runaway thesaurus abuse…
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CA County Rescinds Stay-at-Home Order, Announces it Will Not Enforce Gov. Newsom’s Lockdown Rules
A California county on Tuesday rescinded its stay-at-home order, saying it will not spend anymore of its resources on enforcing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lockdown measures.
Stanislaus County Public Health Director Dr. Julie Vaishampayan and the Board of Supervisors claim the guidelines introduced by the governor for reopening certain businesses are unreasonable.
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CNN Poll Finds That People Trust CNN
A new poll conducted by CNN has found that people trust CNN.
Yes, really.
CNN’s Brian Stelter proudly posted the results of the poll, which purports to show significantly more people trust the news network when it comes to coronavirus information than Fox News or President Trump.
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CNN Virus Townhall Features Greta Thunberg for Some Reason
If you think you’re having a tough time right now, just try to put yourself in Greta Thunberg’s velcro shoes. Less than six months ago, that kid was on top of the world that she claimed was ending. She was Time magazine’s Person of the Year. She was a liberal icon. Cameras followed her everywhere. They all wanted to know her opinions about everything. She was the most famous truant child since Huckleberry Finn, and she rode around on a much nicer boat.
hen the Chinese virus came along and ended the whole party. Suddenly, nobody cares what Greta has to say anymore. We’re too busy trying to survive an actual threat, right this minute, to worry about the weather killing us 12 years from now. (It’s always 12 years from now. It was 12 years in 2008, and it’ll be 12 years in 2032.)
If you want to compare the pandemic to the Kennedy assassination, Greta Thunberg is the new Vaughn Meader. Current events gave her an instant career, and then took it away.
So what’s a girl to do?
Go on CNN as a virus expert, that’s what!
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Coronavirus “Misinformation” Event Cancelled After Critics Point Out it Was Sponsored by Huawei
An event organised by the National Association of Black Journalists on coronavirus ‘misinformation’ was cancelled after it was pointed out that the biggest sponsor was the Chinese technology company Huawei, which has extensive ties to the communist Chinese government.
The ‘webinar’ event, titled “The Rise of Misinformation”, was scheduled to feature such virus expert luminaries as CNN commentator Van Jones and pop star will.i.am, but was scrapped by NABJ, with the organisation saying it had “become a distraction from other priorities.”
NABJ claimed that Huawei had no ‘editorial control’ over the event, but outsiders had charged that having the company as a sponsor was a bizarrely poor decision.
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Dems’ New Coronavirus Bill Contains $50m for “Environmental Justice Grants”
As part of their newly unveiled $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill, Democrats have returned to a number of the same provisions and programs they sought in the first CARES Act but were unable to secure.
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Facebook Blacklists Michigan Quarantine Protest Group
According to Garrett Soldano, one of the leaders of the lockdown protests in Michigan, Facebook blacklisted the page “Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine” — a group that had more than 380,000 members.
In response, the group created a new Facebook page called “Stand Up Michigan.”
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Feds, Cybersecurity Experts Strongly Urge States to Avoid Online Voting
Federal officials and cybersecurity experts are strongly urging states to refrain from online voting in the 2020 election, citing potential security risks even if all protocols are followed.
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GOP Wins Special Election in California After Democrat Concedes
Republicans have won a special election for Congress in Southern California, reclaiming a suburban House seat that they lost to Democrats in the 2018 midterms.
Democrat Christy Smith, a state assemblywoman, conceded defeat to Republican Mike Garcia Wednesday, one day after the closely watched special election runoff for the seat vacated by former Rep. Katie Hill, who resigned last year.
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Gov. Whitmer: Lockdown Protests Are “Racist and Misogynistic”
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday told ABC’s “The View” that the lockdown protests across the state are “racist and misogynistic.”
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is waging an increasingly high-profile battle against an elderly barber, and he appears to be winning in both the courts of law and public opinion.
Karl Manke, a 77-year-old from Owosso, reopened his shop after he was turned down for unemployment.
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It Took a Virus Lockdown to Make Us Appreciate Freedom
Tens of millions of Americans can’t pay their mortgages, rent, or utility bills and are struggling to keep food on the table. Suddenly, they come to the conclusion that their freedoms are being taken away by government. Again, where have they been for the last 100 plus years?…
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Leftist Website Uses Image of White Protesters to Depict Story About Black Terror Suspect
Far-left website Raw Story was caught using an image of white stay-at-home protesters to illustrate an article about a black terror suspect who allegedly planned to kill police officers.
The controversy surrounded an article by Raw Story writer and former ShareBlue pundit Matthew Chapman entitled Ohio man arrested for plot to kidnap police and stockpile their weapons for an ‘uprising’.
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Los Angeles County Announces New ‘Safer-at-Home’ Order With No End Date
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County officials announced a new “Safer-at-Home” health officer order Wednesday, two days before the county’s initial order was set to expire.
County officials said they continue to refer to the orders as “safer-at-home” because currently, residents are safer when they stay home.
“While the Safer at Home orders will remain in place over the next few months, restrictions will be gradually relaxed under our 5-stage Roadmap to Recovery, while making sure we are keeping our communities as safe as possible during this pandemic,” said the county’s Public Health Director, Dr. Barbara Ferrer.
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Man Raises More Than $25k to Display “All Business is Essential” Highway Billboards Across Michigan
Michigan business owner Erik Kiilunen has purchased billboard ads throughout his state that read “ALL BUSINESS IS ESSENTIAL,” as well as raised more than $25,000 online to keep the billboards up and extend the campaign outside Michigan.
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May 12 Nebraska Primary Election Results
President of the United States (Republican)
Donald J. Trump: 232,278 91.54%
Bill Weld: 21,479 8.46%
President of the United States (Democrat)
Joe Biden: 117,119 77.36%
Tulsi Gabbard: 4,230 2.79%
Bernie Sanders: 20,646 13.64%
Elizabeth Warren: 9,393 6.20%
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The father and son who killed Ahmaud Arbery apparently had a confrontation with him two weeks before he was shot, according to one neighbor.
Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, were charged with murder after a video of them shooting Arbery in a Georgia street in February surfaced online last week.
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Most U.S. States Seeing Fewer New Coronavirus Cases During Reopening, Even in High-Risk Areas
The beginning stages of reopening have not produced a spike in new coronavirus cases in most states, including high-risk states such as Georgia and Florida.
Although the reopening process is still in its early stages, a chart produced by Axios in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University shows some of the states experts were most worried about have not seen the rise in total cases they were anticipating.
The chart compares each state’s seven-day average of new cases from May 11 and the seven-day average from May 4, with the May 11 numbers capturing the first full week that states began to relax their lockdown restrictions.
Several high-risk and hard-hit states have seen reductions in new cases by more than 30% during reopening.
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Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell on Wednesday released a list of top Obama administration officials who reportedly sought to “unmask” the identity of Michael Flynn during the presidential transition period.
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Prince Harry is Friendless and Unemployed in LA, Missed ‘Having a Structure’: Report
It’s been a little over a month since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made the bold move to California and now a source close to the Duke of Sussex believes his American life is lacking structure.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex officially departed as senior members of the royal family at the end of March, marking a new life of unknowns as the couple vowed to earn their own keep and split their time between Harry’s native Britain and Meghan’s North American roots.
After reports surfaced about Harry’s loneliness in Los Angeles, Calif., where he and Meghan are living large in an $18 million mansion reportedly owned by Tyler Perry, a source tells Vanity Fair he’s homesick for a couple of reasons.
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Rand Paul: “We Can’t Wait for Perfection … We’ve Got to Open the Economy”
During a discussion on “Greg Kelly Reports” Tuesday evening, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said his biggest criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony during the Senate coronavirus hearing is “we can’t wait for perfection… we’ve got to open the economy.”
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Richard Grenell Drops Another Bombshell on the Obama Admin’s Involvement in SpyGate
In a new twist in SpyGate, Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, suppressed intelligence that Russia wanted Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election, according to information being declassified by acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell.
Fox News chief White House correspondent Ed Henry revealed this bombshell Tuesday evening while appearing on Tucker Carlson Tonight.
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Rush Limbaugh: Dems’ Objective With Lockdowns is “To Wreck the Economy to Get Rid of Trump”
Talk radio powerhouse Rush Limbaugh on his program Tuesday accused Democrats of desiring to keep the American economy shut down as long as possible in order to defeat Trump at the ballot box in November.
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Senators Introduce ‘Stop COVID Act’ So US Citizens Can Sue China
Two Republican Senators have introduced legislation titled the Stop COVID Act, (“China-Originated Viral Infectious Diseases”) to allow US citizens to sue the communist state over the spread of the virus in America.
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The Proper Response of Law Enforcement to Unconstitutional Executive Orders
However, no governor in any state has the authority to suspend the Constitution. And no pretended “Emergency Powers” legislation can give it to him because the legislature cannot give the Governor an authority that they, themselves, do not have…
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Tom Tiffany Wins Seat Held by Former Rep. Sean Duffy in Wisconsin Special Election
WAUSAU, Wis. — Tom Tiffany will serve as the next representative of Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District.
Tiffany, a Republican, was elected Tuesday, beating out Democrat Tricia Zunker for the seat during a special election, according to the Associated Press.
Tiffany is facing a quick turnaround after the election. He will be expected in Washington, D.C., starting next week to begin serving in Congress. Tiffany also faces another campaign season, too. Like every other seat in Congress, the 7th Congressional District is on the ballot in November.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down Governor’s Stay-at-Home Order
The Wisconsin state Supreme Court struck down Democratic Gov. Tony Ever’s stay-at-home order on Wednesday, ruling that he does not have authority to act without input from the legislature, even during a public health crisis.
The 4-3 decision written by four conservative judges on the court ruled the order “invalid, and therefore, unenforceable.”
Republican state lawmakers had sued Gov. Evers and state Department of Health Secretary Andrea Palm over the order requiring nonessential businesses to remain shuttered until at least May 26, arguing that the administration had exceeded its authority.
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1962 ‘Life in 2022’ Image Depicted Everyone Trapped in Pods
A depiction of life in 2022 by an Italian magazine first published in 1962 depicted pedestrians using motorized pods instead of walking, something that may turn out to be quite accurate given current fears over coronavirus.
The image was drawn by Walter Molino, an Italian comics artist and illustrator. It featured on the front page of a 1962 edition of La Domenica del Corriere, an Italian weekly newspaper which ran from 1899 to 1989.
The cartoon shows individuals navigating the sidewalk from within the confines of their own personal pod.
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Coronavirus: Deaths in Italy Up 39% Says ISTAT
Rise of 25,354 in period from Feb 20 to March 31 reports agency
(ANSA) — Rome, May 8 — Some 25,354 more people died in Italy between February 20 and March 31 this year than in the last few years, a 39% rise, ISTAT said Friday.
“Just over half are due to the COVID-19 virus,” the stats agency said.
The data come from 6,866 municipalities, ISTAT President Giancarlo Blangiardo told a press conference organised by the Higher Health Institute (ISS).
“This is not a sample but a well thought out selection, to give the most complete picture possible of the situation”, he said.
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EU Parliament Tells Hungary to Send Orban to Debate
EU Parliament president David Sassoli said Hungary should send prime minister Viktor Orban to debate, in response to an earlier request by the country’s justice minister Judit Varga to participate in Thursday’s debate on Budapest’s controversial extraordinary measures. In a letter to Orban, Sassoli said “according to the established practice […] the appropriate level of participation” is that of prime ministers, but added remote participation was not possible.
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Far-Left Antifa Suspects in Beating of German Camera Crew Come From Privileged Backgrounds
Two of the six far-left extremists Antifa suspects involved in the brutal beating of a German television crew have been revealed as coming from a privileged middle-class background, originally from a well-off Swabian town.
The two suspects, 27-year-old Miriam S. and her 25-year-old brother Simon S., were arrested shortly after the attack on a camera crew of German broadcaster ZDF on May 1st in Berlin that sent four members of the crew to the hospital with various injuries suffered during the brutal assault.
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George Soros Predicts That Pandemic Could Mean End of the EU
Infamous billionaire and philanthropist of Left-wing causes George Soros believes that the global crisis sparked by the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic could very well spell the end for the European Union.
Soros made the remarks in an interview he gave to the British newspaper The Independent on Monday. “I am particularly concerned about the survival of the EU because it is an incomplete union,” he said. “It was in the process of being created. But the process was never completed and that makes Europe exceptionally vulnerable — more vulnerable than the US not just because it is an incomplete union but also because it is based on the rule of law.”
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Germany: Exclusive: Former Stasi Recruited to Police ‘Racism’ In Video Games
Electronic Arts is a major international video game development company stationed out of California, with main offices in Edmonton, Montreal and Vancouver. Responsible for blockbuster franchises as The Sims, FIFA, Madden NFL, and Battlefield, it has grown to a $5 billion operation since its founding in 1982, and is one of the biggest gaming companies in the world.
But Electronic Arts’ Berlin office just entered into a troubling partnership, one that has German gamers reeling.
The EA office in Berlin recently announced it was partnering with the Amadeu Antonio Foundation and its program “Keine Pixel für Faschisten” [No Pixels for Fascists]. The Orwellian program seeks to monitor political beliefs in the video game industry and among players for “racism, sexism, and anti-semitism.”
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Germany Considers Opening National Borders to Rest of Europe
AP BERLIN — The German government is recommending that a requirement for people arriving from other countries in Europe to self-quarantine for 14 days be dropped.
Germany last month imposed a requirement for all people arriving in the country to go straight home and stay there for two weeks, except those who were on very short trips, commuting to their jobs, transporting goods or in some other essential functions.
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Hungary: Man Questioned by Police for Spreading Wuhan Virus Conspiracy Theory
A man in Hungary was briefly detained and questioned by the police yesterday in connection with a social media post he had made promoting a Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) conspiracy theory.
The 64-year-old man, called Andras in media reports, had made a Facebook post on April 28 in which he suggested that Viktor Orban’s government had purposefully chosen to begin loosening the lockdown restrictions in the country at the same time that the outbreak was expected to peak there, in an effort to cause mass infections.
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Hungary Accuses Nordic Nations of Spreading ‘False News’ About Coronavirus Lockdown
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjartó invited ambassadors from the Scandinavian countries to a meeting after their foreign ministers signed a letter slamming Hungary’s Wuhan coronavirus response.
Szijjartó accused Denmark, Finland, Iceland Norway and Sweden of “spreading false news” about Hungary’s coronavirus lockdown measures and stated on social media platform Facebook that he would be calling all the ambassadors to the foreign ministry Tuesday.
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Two-Thirds of Italians Fear Riots, Social Unrest Over Coronavirus
Nearly two-thirds of Italians now fear the country could see riots and social violence in the wake of the Wuhan coronavirus, while trust in politicians has reached single-digit lows.
The alarming figures were published in a poll conducted by Euromedia Research this week, and claimed that 65 per cent of Italians feared that the country, especially in the north which has been the hardest hit region by the Chinese virus, could see social tensions and rioting in the country’s industrial heartlands.
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UK Shadow Home Secretary Caught Making Another Racist Remark About White People
Diane Abbott has once again been caught making racist comments about white people — following on from her infamous ‘white people’ statement.
During a private zoom call held last month, Abbott reiterated her stereotypical and bigoted line that ‘white people love playing divide and rule’ in a conversation with left-wing BAME Labour members.
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UK: Rail Worker Dies From Coronavirus After Passenger Coughed and Spat at Her
Ticket collector Belly Mujinga and her colleague were coughed and spat at whilst working at London’s Victoria Station. The abusive passenger claimed that he had coronavirus and the 47 year-old mother with respiratory problems died in hospital just under two weeks later, The Mirror reports.
As Mrs Mujinga’s condition deteriorated, she was put on a ventilator but doctors were unable to save her and she sadly passed away. Her husband and 11 year-old daughter made a video call but Belly was too sick to communicate so the family never had the chance to say goodbye.
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The NHS has replcaed Christianity in the UK as a religious institution.
It’s called “the envy of the world.”
Really?
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Wuhan Coronavirus is Fueling Disputes Between Germany and Austria
Germany is still refusing to open its border with Austria despite a request from the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, and some Austrian commentators are even beginning to wonder if the German refusal is part of a campaign targeting Austria.
One thing is certain. If the Germans do not allow their citizens to go on holiday to Austria in the summer, the Austrians will have serious problems, as about half of the foreign tourists who head to Austrian hotels come from Germany. Austrian tourism is thus essentially dependent on its neighbor.
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Turkey: Erdogan’s “Leftovers of the Sword”
During a coronavirus briefing on May 4, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a most derogatory phrase “the leftovers of the sword”.
“We do not allow terrorist leftovers of the sword in our country,” he said, “to attempt to carry out [terrorist] activities. Their number has decreased a lot but they still exist.”
“Leftover of the sword” (kiliç artigi in Turkish) is a commonly used insult in Turkey that often refers to the survivors of the Christian massacres that mainly targeted Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire and its successor, Turkey.
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Russia in Czech Spy and Poison Controversy
Czech TV has named Russian diplomat Andrei Konchakov, the head of the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Prague, a spy who smuggled the poison ricin into the country intending to poison three Czech local politicians highly critical of Russia. Both Konchakov and the Russian embassy denied it. Russia was the victim of “false and unfounded” allegations, it said. He had brought sweets and disinfectant, not ricin, Konchakov said.
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The radical Islamist preacher Zakir Naik has released a video in which he can be heard asking Islamic countries across the globe to collect data of non-Muslims in India who criticise Islam and arrest them when they land up in their countries and try them under the blasphemy law.
In a video going viral on social media, the Islamist preacher says that he would request all the Kuwait lawyers to collect a database of all non-Muslims in India who have ever passed any negative remarks or abused or ‘attacked’ Muslims or Islam, and keep it stored in their computer. Next time when these non-Muslim Indians visit any gulf country, be it Indonesia, Dubai, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, they should be identified, booked and tried under the laws.
“The rich non-Muslims travel to Gulf and different Muslim countries. If these Muslim countries have data of these people attacking or spreading venom against Muslims, they should arrest them under their (own) law once they enter their territory,” said Naik. The video was first posted on Pakistani-American preacher Yasir Qadhi’s YouTube channel on 23rd April, 2020.
The radical Islamist preacher Zakir Naik is currently living in Malaysia after fleeing India. He is facing charges in India of provoking communal disharmony and indulging in unlawful activities that incited terror in the country.
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The brutalities against minorities continue unabated in the terrorist state of Pakistan as multiple instances of atrocities against minorities especially Hindus and Sikhs have been emerging regularly in recent times. In yet another deplorable act of forced conversion to Islam in the terror state of Pakistan, a young Hindu girl named Kavita Kumari was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam. Mian Mithoo, the extremist Muslim cleric and an influential politician that Hindu families dread in Sindh, is believed to be behind the incident.
Mian Mithu is accused of kidnapping and forcing religious conversions of Hindu teenage girls in Pakistan.
In the incident which was reported from Barjhundi in Ghotki area of Sindh province, Pakistan, a thirteen-year-old Kavita Kumari was abducted and allegedly taken to Mian Mithoo, who then forced the Hindu minor to embrace Islam.
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Coronavirus: Government Tweaks COVID-19 Level 2 Law After Marae Controversy
The Government has backed down on some “extraordinary powers” in a Covid-19 level 2 law, including switching a two-year limit on the enforcement law to three months. But the intent of the bill remains the same.
…However, the changes still potentially allow warrantless searches of premises by police for the next three months.
The law is required for the Government to enforce Covid-19 Alert Level 2 rules, such as social distancing and restriction on gatherings. It would give police powers to enter homes without warrants.
…The Opposition has “condemned” the bill for its extraordinary power, process and executive overreach and says the shows the Government does not trust the public.
ACT Leader David Seymour referred to the bill as having “Henry VIII-style powers”, a reference to laws made by King Henry VIII that allowed the English Government to change provisions of laws without having to go back to Parliament.
He voted for the first and second reading, but will vote against the bill at third reading.
“I’ve tried to be constructive and improve the bill, but the Government hasn’t taken concerns about the basic rights and freedoms of New Zealanders seriously,” Seymour said.
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Meanwhile, Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt has expressed “deep concern” about the lack of scrutiny and rushed process for the bill. The Commission received the exposure draft bill on Monday evening and its legal team urgently prepared a short response.
“For weeks the Government has known that we would be moving to alert level 2. It has not allowed enough time for careful public democratic consideration of this level 2 legislation. There has been no input from ordinary New Zealanders which is deeply regrettable,” Hunt said.
“This is a great failure of our democratic process. The new legislation, if passed in its current state, will result in sweeping police powers unseen in this country for many years.”
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With 670 people in Australia still infected with COVID-19, the chance of having the disease are one in 38,336. Just five weeks ago, the probability of being an active case was one in 7,687.
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This week China has suggested it will impose huge tariffs on Australian barley and suspended imports of Australian beef from four major suppliers.
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Women’s AFL star Moana Hope and her wife Isabella Carlstrom are expecting their first baby together.
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France: Pro-Refugee Activist Murdered by Migrant He Was Sleeping With
A pro-refugee activist in France was found dead at his home after being murdered by the same 20-year-old Afghan migrant he had been sleeping with.
63-year-old Jean Dussine was head of a group called Itinérance that helps vulnerable migrants. The activist also personally allowed some of the migrants to stay at his home.
According to Ouest France, Dussine was found dead at his home having been viciously beaten with an iron rod as he slept.
Dussine “was sleeping when [the alleged assailant], an Afghan migrant barely 20 years old, attacked him with an iron rod. He could not be revived,” reports Valeurs Actuelles.
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France: Congolese ‘Caregiver’ Arrested Over Rape of 92-Year-Old Women in Nursing Home
Police in Paris on Sunday arrested a Congolese nursing assistant for the rape of a 92-year-old women living in the nursing home which employed him.
The attack is said to have taken place sometime before 6:45 pm on Sunday evening at the ‘Korian Les Arcades’ nursing home, which is located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. After receiving a disturbing report from one of the nursing assistants, the director of the living facility for dependent elderly people alerted police to the situation, 20 Minutes France reports.
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German Court Rejects Appeal by Iraqi Migrant Who Raped and Murdered Teenage Girl
BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court said Tuesday it has thrown out a rejected Iraqi asylum-seeker’s appeal against his conviction for raping and murdering a 14-year-old local girl.
Ali Bashar was sentenced to life in prison by the Wiesbaden state court in July following a four-month trial in a case that fueled tensions over migration. The court ruled there was a “particular severity of guilt,” meaning that he likely won’t be released after 15 years as is common in Germany.
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Italy: M5S Blocks Deal on Regularising Migrant Farm Workers
Movement objects to possible criminal amnesty
(ANSA) — Rome, May 11 — The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) on Monday blocked a deal reached at an overnight majority summit on regularising migrant seasonal farm workers, home helps and carers.
The M5S said it opposed two elements of the deal: a possible criminal amnesty for employers who regularise those working off the books; and the six-month-long duration of the temporary stay permits the workers might use to seek work in Italy. According to the deal reached by parties including the M5S overnight, workers would have been regularised for six months and there will be stringent tests, The farm hands would only have been regularised if their employer made an application for them, and they would have had to prove they have worked in the sector before.
The issue has caused tension within the majority with the centrist Italia Viva (IV) party of former premier Matteo Rmnzi pushing for regularisation and the M5S resisting the move.
Earlier Monday the M5s reiterated: “on the topic of seasonal workers we remain strongly opposed to any intervention that looks like an indiscriminate regularisation”.
They added: “the accord must not camouflage any amnesty, otherwise we would say no”. Nationalist opposition anti-migrant League leader Matteo Salvini has said the League will “take to the streets” if there is a general amnesty for migrant farm workers.
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Portugal to Take in 500 “Unaccompanied Minors” From Greek Migrant Camps
Portugal’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Augusto Santos Silva announced earlier this week that 500 so-called “unaccompanied migrant children” in Greece will be transferred to Portugal once restrictions on movements to stem the spread of the Chinese coronavirus are lifted.
“The commitment to take in 500 of the (over) 5,000 unaccompanied minors in camps in Greece remains and it will happen as soon as restrictions due to the pandemic allow us,” Santos Silva told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday.
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Sweden: Migrant Charged With Murdering His Girlfriend and Chopping Her Into Pieces
A Kurdish migrant has been charged for the murder of his girlfriend, 17-year-old Wilma Andersson, who went missing six months ago. Her body was cut up into many pieces, some of which have not yet been found. Wilma’s head was found in a suitcase in the migrant’s flat.
In his defence, the migrant claimed that the fact that he had kept her head indicated that he loved Wilma too much to kill her.
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Vatican: Immigrants Are the ‘True Victims’ Of the Coronavirus Pandemic
ROME — The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano announced Wednesday that migrants are the “true victims” of the coronavirus pandemic and yet they have disappeared from the news.
“Migrants are the true victims of the pandemic: up until a few months ago they were considered the emergency, but now they have disappeared from the news,” the newspaper tweeted Wednesday.
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The United Kingdom is practically alone in not limiting or monitoring international arrivals during the coronavirus pandemic but when challenged on this oversight the Home Secretary abrogated her own responsibility, insisting the decision had instead been taken by the scientists, apparently absolving the government from having to defend its record.
Speaking on British television Wednesday morning, Home Secretary Priti Patel was asked by Good Morning Britain host Lorraine Kelly about the situation at the nation’s unguarded borders, which have frequently compared unfavourably of late to the domestic lockdown where resident Britons have been placed under police-enforced curfew.
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UK: The Diversity Cult Strikes Again
Fred Perry is trending in the UK because a few people got upset that the clothing company used 100 per cent non-white models in a tweet.
This prompted a massive backlash from ‘woke’ white leftists screaming “racism.”
Give me a break. The UK is 87% white.
If Fred Perry Nigeria had used all white models for a tweet, they’d be furiously signing petitions.
If the face of Fred Perry South Africa had been a white dude, they’d all be screeching about “white supremacy.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjvFhGH2eyo
And this was seven years ago.
This Swede’s name was Tommie Lindh. He was a nationalist who died defending a Swedish woman he knew who a Sudanese man was trying to rape at a party they were at. After murdering Tommie the [epithet] went right back to raping her. The same migrant had already been convicted of sexual assault of a minor under the age of 15 in 2016. Rest In Peace Tommie. I don’t think he was a GoV really should do a story on him, I don’t think he was a “Neo-Nazi” like some are claiming.
https://twitter.com/kjudu52/status/1260328075054571521
Sentence screw up, of all times to do it.
*GoV really should do a story on him, I don’t think he was a “Neo-Nazi” like some are claiming.
The Muslims seem very Nazi. More so given their current and past track record. Would make a great TV series. Pity Charlie Chaplin is not around to do another great movie about the machine people.
Apparently he was a member of the Alternative for Sweden party.
https://twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1260923219302846466
“Far-Left Antifa Suspects in Beating of German Camera Crew Come From Privileged Backgrounds”
On this note, was there any sentence for those antifa who nearly killed that AfD MP?
“Czech TV has named Russian diplomat Andrei Konchakov, the head of the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Prague, a spy who smuggled the poison ricin into the country intending to poison three Czech local politicians highly critical of Russia.”
Czech TV, even though it’s a public service paid by the people, is a leftist swamp of political correctness, it’s better to triplecheck the information to give, or better yet, not pay them much attention in the first place. Unfortunately way too many people aren’t aware of it.
China has launched a merciless biological weapon on the world and it cowers in fear of the Maoist devils.
China is easily shattered.
https://twitter.com/BBR4369/status/1259507351557681152
Discussion with illegal Migrants in France.
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2020/05/14/vandals-cut-down-monumental-iron-cross-in-france/#disqus_thread
“””Vandals”””
Everybody run, those Northern Europeans are conquering south again!
Will some of these characters be handing out some kind of blanket type gifts to the the locals soon? I imagine some will be watching the response to the Chinese, “and what exactly are you going to do big guy?” The bigger the atrocity the greater the numbers flowing in. Soon it will be a case of, “If you ain’t got no knickers you can’t pull ‘em up”. Boris and his lot seem so grungy and inexperienced.
On France’s new anti-hate law.
A friend who lives in the south of France sent me a PDF, accompanied by a translation of what it says, and it might just be the most draconian “hate law” yet, even compared to the U.K.s blasphemy laws. I uploaded the image and translation to imgur.
https://imgur.com/a/h8WgIJD
https://vk.com/wall-186961297_25657
Video:
African and Sri Lankan students staged a mass brawl in Moscow region.
Everything happened in the hostel of the Pushchino State Institute of Natural Sciences. The conflict occurred between students from Sri Lanka and from African countries (Algeria, Togo, Morocco, Cameroon and Senegal).
Muslim students after sunset ate and prayed in the kitchen. At that moment, Sri Lankan students came there. A verbal skirmish ensued between them, which soon grew into a stabbing.
In total, about a hundred people participated in a mass brawl. As a result, dozens of students were injured, and part of the dormitory building was smashed to pieces.
https://www.newsweek.com/portugal-citizenship-rights-migrants-asylum-seekers-health-care-coronavirus-1503178?amp=1&utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true
And they are also taking 500 “children” from Greece soon, the highest by a significant margin (nearly 1/3) of the countries agreeing to this latest farce of relocation for 1,600 migrants from the Greek isles, and Portugal has a very small population compared to the other except Finland and Luxembourg.
Strange happenings in Portugal these days.
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1260998729609420801
“How Sweden go it right.”